Final Messenger has to be one of my favorite artists from friend's house records, which is one of my favorite labels to exist, they're extremely fucking cool you should check out friend's house vol 1 and 2!

But yeah, Ideation has so many good songs, and before I get into those I want to also highlight 2 other songs from Final Messenger that aren't on Ideation, being Until Yr Feet Start to Bleed and mirror (unrequited)! Both are fucking amazing, fun, and extremely big recommendations, final messenger is just really good!!!!
(Mirror (Unrequited) was also the song that introduced me to Final Messenger)

So, Ideation, I really really love this album. It's a very emotionally dense and musically interesting album, the vocals throughout the entire album hit me extremely hard, and to me often sound filled with a great sense of longing and sort of gentleness that makes the songs feel vulnerable, honest and passionate, in a pretty unique way.

The variation throughout this album is also very cool, there's songs which consist of only Acoustic Guitar and Vocals (Western Movies), and other ones that are completely instrumental and mainly consisting of of electronic/digital instruments (It is good you are alive.) (although this is kinda cheating because the song I'm referencing is basically an interlude/intro into another song that does have vocals, but the point still stands)
Even within songs the transitions from smooth and often gentle vocals and music into dense and rough intrumentals makes the songs feel very alive and intense, adding even more to the amount of expression within these songs, this being very present in Never Yours and Rigor Mortis.

My favorite songs from the album are:

1212, because it is so down to earth and so down in general, it's a very depressing song, but it's done so fucking well making it feel basically cathartic to listen to.

Song Named After My Town, because of the energetic and fun instrumentals, and the lyrics are so cool too, with probably some of my favorite lines in music in general, particularly "I'm not going to heaven, so I hope you go to hell. We can embrace in the flames of eternity" LIKE C'MON THAT GOES SO FUCKING HARDD!!! AND THE DELIVERY IS SO GOOD!!! AAAAAAA!!!! (also the outro is very cool eheheh)

Throwing In the Towel, mostly for it's very cool and interesting instrumentals that really hook into my brain for some reason, especially the synth that goes "| Medium | Higher | High - Lower - Lower - Lowest | High - Lower - Lower - Lowest |". but the lyrics and vocals again are so good, it feels miserable and spiteful in a very exhausted way, but again, so extremely fucking cathartic.

and then finally Rigor Mortis, again with such defined and cool instrumentals, feeling jagged and rough while also sounding fierce and decisive, mathing very well with Final Messenger's vocals. Also I love the sort of ethereal almost interludes at 1:18 and 2:47, they're such a large contrast to the rest of the song, it makes the other parts hit even harder.

also the album cover of this album goes so fucking hard, I absolutely love the artstyle.

also also the outro of Distant Figures always gives me chills